The Progress., 1887-12-24
STAR News, Minneapolis.
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ator Dawes has introd duced a bill pro-
viding that hereafter white men who
marry Indian women shall not be en-
Titled to tribal privileges, and their
wives shall, by the act Of marriage,
become citizens Of the United States.
This is to prevent white men from ac-
formulating Indian property.
What next?
In connection with this matter
I'VE have a word to say, as we are
strictly IN opposition to any steps
looking to the promoting Of any
further measures ii behalf Of this
inco silently arbitrary doctrine
Iof ostracism Of individuals, that is
as far as the White Earth reser-
yation are concerned.
When the Hon. U. s. Investi-
eating committee were here last
summer several Of the bona-fde
indians handed the Hon. Gentle
men an instrument which had
been prepared for them by one Of
their missionaries. In Art. 10. of
said instrument the Indians i'm.
bodied the purport Of Hon. H. Z.
Dawes late bill. The mixed blood
nor the intelligent Indians, be it
said their credit. had nothing to do
in promoting such cruel and nn-.
charitable antagonism to the most
|ennobling influences ever brought
TO bear in the many efforts to civ
i1ize and promote the well.doing
of the Ojibwas Of the state Of Min
nesota.
Take the white man (we- mean
those connected by family ties)
and his descendants away from the
White Earth reservation, and vir-
tually everything is taken. All the
moral stimulation Of a progressive
civilization, the refining infuen.
ces Of society, the exemplary fac
tors Of prosperous industries, and
the most potent and successful ba.
sis Of mental and physical culture
shall have been swept away.
Theoretical civilization is but Of
mushroom growth, and without
| the practical systems Of modern
days and their functions guided by
the hands Of skill, the Indian will
remain the untutored slave Of ig-
norance and the degraded tool Of
petty authority who may be set
over him in the nominal capacity
of a guardian.
That white man or his family
gets everything from the reser-
vatlon is as absurd as It is erron-
eous. He works faithfully for.
what he gets. He has no right here
save that conferred on him by the
civil contract Of marriage and that
enjoined by the christian and hu-
man covenant Of a father. He ac-
cumulates nothing for the white
man The fruit Of his labors and
intelligence is conferred on his
family, while the air Of energetic
prosperity surrounding his home
infuses the dull lethargic ambition
Of this child of nature--the Indi-.
anWith new life.
We have now on this reservation
and at the different schools over
200 young women Of manageable
age educated, refined, and fitted
to preside over the duties or honor
the noblest position in the sphere
Of " womanhood, who would in the
event Of the passage Of such law
be doomed to a fate as humiliat-
ing as were Africa's daughters Of
slavery days and as ignominious
as the concubines Of Oriental ha.
ren1s. There would remain for
them but two alternative to choose.
from, viz: either marry whatever
comes along on the reservation, or
in the event Of their marrying
white men to sacrifice forever the
comforts and privileges Of the pa
rental root, and the cutting off
and ostracism from all the immu..
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